The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is divided into three divisions based on scholarship allocation. Each division is made up of several conferences for regional league competition. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference affiliation will occur on July 1 of the given year.

Division I

Under NCAA regulations, all Division I conferences defined as "multisport conferences" must meet the following criteria:[1]

  • A total of at least seven active Division I members.
  • Separate from the above, at least seven active Division I members that sponsor both men's and women's basketball.
  • Sponsorship of at least 12 NCAA Division I sports.
  • Minimum of six men's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
    • Men's basketball is a mandatory sport, and at least seven members must sponsor that sport.
    • Non-football conferences must sponsor at least two men's team sports other than basketball.
    • At least six members must sponsor five men's sports other than basketball, including either football or two other team sports.
  • Minimum of six women's sports, with the following additional restrictions:
    • Women's basketball is a mandatory sport, with at least seven members sponsoring that sport.
    • At least two other women's team sports must be sponsored.
    • At least six members must sponsor five women's sports other than basketball, including two other team sports. If a conference officially sponsors an NCAA "emerging sport" for women (as of 2023, acrobatics & tumbling, equestrianism, rugby union, stunt, triathlon, or wrestling), that sport will be counted if five members (instead of six) sponsor it.

Schools in all divisions that sponsor athletic programs for only one sex/gender need only meet the sports sponsorship requirements for that sex/gender.[2]

Football Bowl Subdivision

Conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision must meet a more stringent set of NCAA requirements than other conferences. Among these additional NCAA regulations, institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision must be "multisport conferences" and participate in conference play in at least six men's and eight women's sports, including football, men's and women's basketball, and at least two other women's team sports. Each school may count one men's and one women's sport not sponsored by its primary conference toward the above limits, as long as that sport competes in another Division I conference. The men's and women's sports so counted need not be the same sport.[3][4]

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportsHeadquartersMap
American Athletic ConferenceThe American2013[lower-alpha 1]14[lower-alpha 2]22Irving,
Texas
Atlantic Coast ConferenceACC195315[lower-alpha 3]27[lower-alpha 4]Greensboro,
North Carolina
Big Ten ConferenceBig Ten
B1G
189614[lower-alpha 5]28Rosemont,
Illinois
Big 12 ConferenceBig 12199614[lower-alpha 6]23[lower-alpha 7]Irving,
Texas
Conference USAC-USA19959[lower-alpha 8]18Irving,
Texas
Division I
FBS independents
[lower-alpha 9]
Ind.N/A4[lower-alpha 10]1N/A
Mid-American ConferenceMAC19461223Cleveland,
Ohio
Mountain West ConferenceMW
MWC
199911[lower-alpha 11]18Colorado Springs,
Colorado
Pac-12 ConferencePac-121959[lower-alpha 12]12[lower-alpha 13]24[lower-alpha 14]San Francisco,
California
Southeastern ConferenceSEC193214[lower-alpha 15]21Birmingham,
Alabama
Sun Belt ConferenceSBC19761420[lower-alpha 16]New Orleans,
Louisiana
  1. Known as Big East Conference prior to 2013.
  2. 14 full members with Wichita State as a non-football member; 14 football members with Navy as a football-only affiliate.
    • 13 full members and 14 football members in 2024 with loss of SMU and addition of Army in football.
  3. 15 members, 14 football members. Notre Dame football is an FBS independent, but has a substantial cross-scheduling agreement with the ACC.
    • 18 full members and 17 football members in 2024 with addition of California, SMU, and Stanford.
  4. 26 sports by NCAA count. The ACC sponsors separate championships for men's and women's fencing, which the NCAA considers to be a single sport.
    • 28 sports (27 by NCAA count) in 2023 with addition of women's gymnastics.
  5. 18 members in 2024 with addition of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington.
  6. 16 members in 2024 with addition of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah and loss of Oklahoma and Texas.
  7. 25 sports in 2024 with addition of beach volleyball and women's lacrosse.
  8. 10 members in 2024 with addition of Kennesaw State.
    • 11 members in 2025 with addition of Delaware.
  9. Note that "independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. All of these schools have conference memberships for other sports.
  10. 3 FBS independent schools in 2024 with Army joining The American.
  11. 11 members (12 football) with Hawaii as a football-only affiliate.
  12. Pacific Coast Conference chartered in 1915; current charter formed 1959 by five former PCC members, with three others joining by 1964.
  13. 2 members in 2024 with loss of Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, Utah, USC, and Washington.
  14. 23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus men's rowing; the NCAA governs women's rowing but not men's.
  15. 16 members in 2024 with addition of Oklahoma and Texas.
  16. Possibility of 21 sports with the potential addition of field hockey at an indeterminate date.

Football Championship Subdivision

In addition to competing in football, multisport conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).[1]

ConferenceNicknameFoundedFull MembersSportsHeadquartersMap
Big Sky ConferenceBig Sky, BSC196310[lower-alpha 1]16Ogden, Utah
Big South ConferenceBig South19839 [lower-alpha 2]19Charlotte, North Carolina
Coastal Athletic Association Football ConferenceCAA Football2007[lower-alpha 3]15[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5]1Richmond, Virginia
Division I FCS Independents[lower-alpha 6]1[lower-alpha 7]1
Ivy LeagueIvy League1954[lower-alpha 8]832[lower-alpha 9]Princeton, New Jersey
Mid-Eastern Athletic ConferenceMEAC19708[lower-alpha 10]14Norfolk, Virginia
Missouri Valley Football ConferenceMVFC1985[lower-alpha 11]12[lower-alpha 12]1St. Louis, Missouri
Northeast ConferenceNEC19819[lower-alpha 13]24[lower-alpha 14]Somerset, New Jersey
Ohio Valley ConferenceOVC194811[lower-alpha 15]19Brentwood, Tennessee
Patriot LeaguePatriot198610[lower-alpha 16]24Center Valley, Pennsylvania
Pioneer Football LeaguePFL1991111St. Louis, Missouri
Southern ConferenceSoCon192110[lower-alpha 17]20Spartanburg, South Carolina
Southland ConferenceSouthland
SLC
196310[lower-alpha 18]18Frisco, Texas
Southwestern Athletic ConferenceSWAC19201218Birmingham, Alabama
United Athletic Conference[lower-alpha 19]UAC20239[lower-alpha 20]1
  1. 10 full members and 12 football members with Cal Poly and UC Davis as football-only affiliates.
  2. 9 full members and 4 football members.
    • All football members play in the Big South–OVC Football Association, an alliance between the Big South and the Ohio Valley Conference which shares a single automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.
    • 2 football members in 2024 with loss of associate members Bryant and Robert Morris.
  3. While CAA Football was formally founded in 2007, its history can be traced back decades earlier.
    • The earliest predecessor is the New England Conference, which existed from 1938–1947. However, CAA Football does not recognize this league as part of its history.
    • In 1947, four New England Conference members joined with other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. CAA Football considers its history to have started with the Yankee Conference.
    • The Yankee Conference, by then a football-only league, was taken over by the Atlantic 10 Conference after the 1996 football season.
    • The all-sports CAA took over A-10 football in 2007, forming CAA Football as a separate entity.
  4. CAA Football is a separate entity from the multi-sports CAA.
  5. 16 members in 2024 with addition of Bryant.
    • 15 members in 2025 with loss of Delaware.
  6. Note that "Independents" is not a conference; it is simply a designation used for schools whose football programs do not play in any conference. These schools have conference memberships for other sports.
  7. Kennesaw State started an FBS transition in 2023 and is not participating in the United Athletic Conference.
    • No independents in 2024 with Kennesaw State joining Conference USA.
  8. While the Ivy League considers its athletic conference to have been established in 1954, the history of the athletic league can be traced back decades earlier:
    • In 1901, the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL) was formed by five schools that would later become part of the current Ivy League; the EIBL membership eventually became identical to that of the future all-sports league. The EIBL was directly absorbed into the all-sports Ivy League, which considers the EIBL to be part of its history.
    • In 1945, the Ivy Group Agreement, which governed competition and policies among the Ivy schools in football, was signed by all eight schools that eventually formed the all-sports league.
    • The official formation of the athletic Ivy League came in 1954, when the Ivy Group Agreement was extended to cover all sports.
    For more details, see the section on the history of the athletic Ivy League.
  9. The Ivy League, by NCAA count, sponsors 28 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The Ivy League awards separate men's and women's fencing championships, while the NCAA considers fencing a single coeducational sport. Additionally, the Ivy League sponsors championships in the non-NCAA sports of men's rowing plus men's and women's squash.
  10. 8 full members, 6 football members.
  11. While the MVFC began football competition in 1985, the conference charter dates to 1982. See History of the Missouri Valley Football Conference for more details.
  12. 11 members in 2024 with loss of Western Illinois.
  13. 9 full members, 8 football members with Fairleigh Dickinson and Le Moyne as non-football members and with Duquesne as a football-only affiliate.
    • 8 full members and anywhere from 7 to 9 football members in 2024 with the following changes:
  14. 25 sports in 2024 with reinstatement of men's lacrosse.
  15. 11 full members, 6 football members (full members Morehead State and Western Illinois respectively play football in the Pioneer Football League and Missouri Valley Football Conference).
    • All current OVC football members (i.e., not counting Morehead State and Western Illinois) play that sport in the Big South–OVC Football Association.
    • 7 football members in 2024 with Western Illinois joining the Big South–OVC alliance.
  16. 10 full members and 7 football members with Army, Navy, American, Boston, and Loyola (MD) as non-football members (Army and Navy both compete in FBS football) and with Fordham and Georgetown as football-only affiliates.
  17. 10 full members, 9 football members.
  18. 10 full members, 8 football members.
  19. Not an officially recognized NCAA conference; that body treats the UAC as the continuation of a preexisting football-only alliance between the ASUN Conference and Western Athletic Conference.
  20. 10 members in 2024 with addition of West Georgia.
    • 11 members in 2025 with addition of UTRGV.

Non-football, multi-sport conferences

Multisport conferences that do not compete in football must still meet the general NCAA Division I requirements regarding the minimum number of men's and women's sports (see above).[1]

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportsHeadquartersMap
America East ConferenceAmerica East
AmEast
1979918Boston, Massachusetts
ASUN ConferenceASUN197812[lower-alpha 1]20Atlanta, Georgia
Atlantic 10 ConferenceA-1019751522Newport News, Virginia
Big East ConferenceBig East1979[lower-alpha 2]1123[lower-alpha 3]New York City, New York
Big West ConferenceBig West
BWC
19691119[lower-alpha 4]Irvine, California
Coastal Athletic AssociationCAA198314[lower-alpha 5]23Richmond, Virginia
Horizon LeagueHorizon19791119Indianapolis, Indiana
Independents1[lower-alpha 6]
Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceMAAC198011[lower-alpha 7]25[lower-alpha 8]Edison, New Jersey
Missouri Valley ConferenceMVC
The Valley
19071217St. Louis, Missouri
Mountain Pacific Sports FederationMPSF199237[lower-alpha 9]11[lower-alpha 10]Woodland, California
Summit LeagueThe Summit1982919Sioux Falls, South Dakota
West Coast ConferenceWCC1952916San Bruno, California
Western Athletic ConferenceWAC19621119Arlington, Texas
  1. 12 members in 2024 with loss of Kennesaw State and addition of West Georgia.
  2. Although the charter of the current Big East dates only to the 2013 split of the original Big East, both the current Big East and the American Athletic Conference claim 1979 as their founding dates. The current Big East maintains the pre-split history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors. In football and rowing, the two sports that are sponsored by The American but not the current Big East, neither conference recognizes the history of the original Big East.
  3. 22 NCAA-sanctioned sports, plus the non-NCAA and fully coeducational esports.
  4. 21 sports in 2024 with addition of men's and women's swimming & diving.
  5. The CAA Football Conference is a separate entity from the all-sports CAA.
  6. Chicago State.
  7. 13 members in 2024 with addition of Merrimack and Sacred Heart.
  8. 23 NCAA-sanctioned sports plus two non-NCAA sports—men's rowing, and Esports, which are fully coeducational.
  9. No more than 10 schools are competing in any one of the MPSF's sports in 2023–24.
    • 38 members in 2024 with the following changes:
      • Departure of Cal Poly, Cal State Bakersfield, and UC Santa Barbara, members only in swimming & diving, due to the addition of men's and women's swimming & diving by their primary home of the Big West Conference.
      • Return of former members Oregon and Washington for the newly sponsored beach volleyball.
      • Addition of Menlo and Vanguard in men's volleyball.
  10. Sponsors 10 NCAA sports and 1 non-NCAA sport, artistic swimming.
    • 11 NCAA sports and 12 total sports in 2024 with addition of beach volleyball.

Ice hockey conferences

Division I ice hockey has a different conference structure than the above multisport conferences. These schools have memberships in other conferences for other sports.

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembers (Men/Women)HeadquartersMap
Atlantic HockeyAtlantic Hockey
AHA
199711 (11/none)[lower-alpha 1]Haverhill, Massachusetts
Central Collegiate Hockey AssociationCCHA2020[lower-alpha 2]9 (9/none)Farmington Hills, Michigan
College Hockey AmericaCHA1999[lower-alpha 3]6 (none/6)[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4]Haverhill, Massachusetts
ECAC HockeyECAC196212 (12/12)Albany, New York
Hockey EastHockey East
HEA
198412 (11/10)Amesbury, Massachusetts
Independents6 (6/none)[lower-alpha 5]
New England Women's Hockey AllianceNEWHA2018[lower-alpha 6]8 (none/8)Winthrop, Massachusetts
National Collegiate Hockey ConferenceNCHC2011[lower-alpha 7]8 (8/none)[lower-alpha 8]Colorado Springs, Colorado
Western Collegiate Hockey AssociationWCHA1951[lower-alpha 9]8 (none/8)Edina, Minnesota
  1. 1 2 Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America have announced they will merge in 2024. They have not yet determined the branding of the merged entity.
  2. Founded in 2020, with play starting in 2021, as the revival of an earlier CCHA that existed from 1971 to 2013; the current CCHA considers itself a continuation of the original. Bowling Green, which was a member of the original CCHA for its entire existence and is a charter member of the revived conference, maintained rights to the league name.
  3. College Hockey America was formed in 1999 as a men's-only conference; women's play began in 2002. The men's side of CHA folded after the 2009–10 season.
  4. 7 members in 2025 with addition of Delaware.
  5. 5 members in 2024 with Arizona State joining the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
  6. Established as a scheduling alliance in 2017, officially organized as a conference in 2018, and officially recognized by the NCAA in 2019.
  7. Although founded in 2011, the NCHC did not begin play until 2013.
  8. 9 members in 2024 with addition of Arizona State.
  9. Founded in 1951 as a men's-only conference; women's play began in 1999. The men's side of the WCHA folded after the 2020–21 season, with most of its members forming the revived CCHA.

Other single-sport conferences

This list includes conferences in sports that the NCAA does not fully split into divisions, such as men's volleyball and rifle. Sports in which the NCAA sponsors separate championships for men and women are officially treated by the NCAA as two separate sports.

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportsHeadquartersMap
Central Collegiate Fencing ConferenceCCFC61 (Fencing) ?
Central Collegiate Ski AssociationCCSA20097[lower-alpha 1]1 (Skiing) ?
Coastal Collegiate Sports AssociationCCSA200841 (beach volleyball)Macon, Georgia
Collegiate Water Polo AssociationCWPA1970s26[lower-alpha 2]1 (water polo)Bridgeport, Pennsylvania
East Atlantic Gymnastics LeagueEAGL199571 (gymnastics) ?
Eastern Association of Rowing CollegesEARC ?181 (rowing)Danbury, Connecticut
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing CollegesEAWRC ?181 (rowing)Danbury, Connecticut
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics LeagueEIGL ?51 (gymnastics)Danbury, Connecticut
Eastern Intercollegiate Ski AssociationEISA ?151 (Skiing) ?
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball AssociationEIVA197761 (men's volleyball)Bronxville, New York
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling AssociationEIWA1905171 (wrestling) ?
Eastern Women's Fencing ConferenceEWFC200071 (fencing) ?
Golden Coast ConferenceGCC2013[lower-alpha 3]81 (water polo) ?
Great America Rifle ConferenceGARC199891 (rifle) ?
Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California.IFCSC1996?2[lower-alpha 4]1 (fencing) ?
Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing AssociationMACFA19528[lower-alpha 5]1 (fencing)Hackettstown, New Jersey
Mid-Atlantic Rifle ConferenceMAC19787[lower-alpha 6]1 (rifle) ?
Mid-Atlantic Water Polo ConferenceMAWPC71 (Water Polo) ?
Midwest Fencing Conference.MFC19686[lower-alpha 7]1 (fencing)University of Notre Dame (?)
Midwest Independent ConferenceMIC ?61 (women's gymnastics)UIC (?)
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball AssociationMIVA196191 (men's volleyball)Columbus, Ohio
National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing AssociationNIWFA192910[lower-alpha 8]1 (fencing) ?
New England Intercollegiate Fencing ConferenceNEIFC ?8[lower-alpha 9]1 (fencing) ?
Northeast Fencing ConferenceNFC19928[lower-alpha 10]1 (fencing) ?
Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive ConferencePCSC20029 (men)
15 (women)
1 (swimming) ?
Patriot Rifle ConferencePRC201361 (rifle)Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski AssociationRMISA19506[lower-alpha 11]1 (Skiing) ?
Western Water Polo AssociationWWPA19817 (men)
8 (women)
1 (water polo) ?
  1. There are 7 NCAA varsity members; the conference also has one junior college member.
  2. 9 schools have both men's & women's varsity teams, 9 have men's varsity teams only, 8 have women's varsity teams only; additionally, there are 136 men's and 86 women's club teams.
  3. Women only. The GCC was founded in 2013 as a women's-only conference; a men's division was added in 2016 and shut down in 2023.
  4. There are 2 varsity members; the conference also has 7 college club members.
  5. There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 7 college club members.
  6. There are 7 varsity members; the conference also has 6 college club members.
  7. There are 6 varsity members; the conference also has 13 college club members.
  8. There are 10 varsity members; the conference also has 10 college club members.
  9. There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 13 college club members.
  10. There are 8 varsity members; the conference also has 5 college club members.
  11. There are 6 varsity members; the conference also has 4 college club members.

Division II

Among the NCAA regulations, Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women (or four for men and six for women), with two team sports for each sex, and each playing season represented by each sex. Teams that consist of both men and women are counted as men's teams for sports sponsorship purposes.[5]

Current conferences

Conferences that sponsor football are highlighted in yellow.

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportsHeadquartersMap
California Collegiate Athletic AssociationCCAA193812[lower-alpha 1]13Walnut Creek, California
Central Atlantic Collegiate ConferenceCACC19611316New Haven, Connecticut
Central Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationCIAA191213[lower-alpha 2]15Hampton, Virginia
Conference CarolinasCC193014[lower-alpha 3]25[lower-alpha 4]Thomasville, North Carolina
East Coast ConferenceECC1989918Central Islip, New York
Great American ConferenceGAC20111216Russellville, Arkansas
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceGLIAC197210[lower-alpha 5]21Bay City, Michigan
Great Lakes Valley ConferenceGLVC197814[lower-alpha 6]24Indianapolis, Indiana
Great Midwest Athletic ConferenceG-MAC201114[lower-alpha 7]23[lower-alpha 8]Greenwood, Indiana
Great Northwest Athletic ConferenceGNAC20011015Portland, Oregon
Gulf South ConferenceGSC197013[lower-alpha 9]17Birmingham, Alabama
Division II independents4[lower-alpha 10]
Lone Star ConferenceLSC193117[lower-alpha 11]18Richardson, Texas
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics AssociationMIAA191214[lower-alpha 12]19Kansas City, Missouri
Mountain East ConferenceMEC201211[lower-alpha 13]23Bridgeport, West Virginia
Northeast-10 ConferenceNE-10198012[lower-alpha 14]23Mansfield, Massachusetts
Northern Sun Intercollegiate ConferenceNSIC193215[lower-alpha 15]18St. Paul, Minnesota.
Pacific West ConferencePacWest199211[lower-alpha 16]15Newport Beach, California
Peach Belt ConferencePBC199010[lower-alpha 17]15Augusta, Georgia
Pennsylvania State Athletic ConferencePSAC195118[lower-alpha 18]23Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Rocky Mountain Athletic ConferenceRMAC190915[lower-alpha 19]23Colorado Springs, Colorado
South Atlantic ConferenceSAC197513[lower-alpha 20]20Rock Hill, South Carolina
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceSIAC191315[lower-alpha 21]14Tucker, Georgia
Sunshine State ConferenceSSC19751118Melbourne, Florida
  1. 13 members in 2025 with addition of UC Merced.
  2. 13 full members; 12 football members.
  3. 15 members in 2024 with addition of Shorter.
  4. 26 sports in 2025 with addition of football.
  5. 10 competing full members, 7 football members. Roosevelt joined for administrative purposes in 2023 but does not start GLIAC competition until 2024.
    • 11 total members and 8 football members in 2024 once Roosevelt starts GLIAC competition.
  6. 14 full members, 8 football members.
    • 15 full members, 9 football members in 2024 with addition of Lincoln (MO).
  7. 14 full members, 10 football members.
  8. Emerging sport wrestling included.
  9. 13 full members, 10 football members.
    • 12 full members, 9 football members in 2024 with addition of Erskine as a football-only affiliate and Trevecca Nazarene, and loss of Shorter and West Georgia.
    • 6 football members in 2025 with loss of Chowan, Erskine, and North Greenville.
  10. 4 all-sports independents, plus Post, a full member of a non-football conference, as a football independent.
    • 1 football independent in 2024 with addition of Shorter and loss of Post.
    • No football football independents in 2025 with loss of Shorter.
  11. 17 full members, 9 football members with Central Washington and Western Oregon as football-only affiliates.
  12. 14 full members, 12 football members.
    • 14 full members, 11 football members with loss of Lincoln (MO) and addition of Arkansas–Fort Smith.
  13. 11 full members with Davis & Elkins as a non-football member; 11 football members with UNC Pembroke as a football affiliate.
    • 12 full members in 2024 with addition of Point Park.
  14. 12 full members, 8 football members.
    • 9 football members in 2024 with addition of Post as a football-only affiliate.
  15. 15 full members, 13 football members.
    • 16 members, 14 football members in 2025 with addition of Jamestown.
  16. 14 members in 2024 with additions of Jessup, Menlo, and Vanguard, once they are scheduled to start PacWest competition.
  17. 11 members in 2025 with addition of Middle Georgia.
  18. 18 full members, 16 football members.
  19. 15 full members, 10 football members.
  20. 13 full members, with Anderson (SC), Coker, and Lincoln Memorial as non-football members; 12 football members with Barton and Erskine as football affiliates.
    • 12 football members no later than 2024 with addition of football by current full member Anderson (SC) and loss of Erskine.
  21. 15 full members, 13 football members.

Single-sport conferences

ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportHeadquartersMap
Appalachian Swimming ConferenceASC ?6 (men)
4 (women)
swimming ?
players+ ECAC Division II Field Hockey LeagueECAC20146field hockeyDanbury, Connecticut
ECAC Division II Wrestling LeagueECAC20157wrestlingDanbury, Connecticut

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New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference.NSISC19955 (men)
6 (women)
swimming ?
Pacific Collegiate Swim and Dive ConferencePCSC20039 (men)
15 (women)
swimming ?

    Other sports

    These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-II championships.

    ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembers[lower-alpha 1]SportHeadquartersMap
    Conference CarolinasCC19308men's volleyballThomasville, North Carolina
    Central Atlantic Collegiate ConferenceCACC19616bowlingNew Haven, Connecticut
    Central Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationCIAA191210bowlingHampton, Virginia
    East Coast ConferenceECC198910bowlingCentral Islip, New York
    4men's volleyball[lower-alpha 2]
    Great Lakes Valley ConferenceGLVC19788bowlingIndianapolis, Indiana
    Northeast-10 ConferenceNE-1019806men's ice hockeySouth Easton, Massachusetts
    Southern Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceSIAC19136men's volleyballTucker, Georgia
    1. Number reflects membership in the sport that lacks a D-II championship, not the number of full members.
    2. First season of competition in 2023–24.

    Division III

    Unlike the other two divisions, Division III institutions cannot offer athletic scholarships. Among the other NCAA Division III requirements, schools have sports sponsorship requirements set by the NCAA. All institutions, regardless of enrollment, must sponsor at least three team sports for each sex/gender, and each playing season represented by each sex/gender.[6]

    A sports sponsorship rule unique to Division III is that the total number of sports that must be sponsored differs by a school's full-time undergraduate enrollment. Schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or fewer must sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women; those with larger enrollments must sponsor six men's and six women's sports. As in the other divisions, teams that include both men and women are treated as men's sports for the purpose of these regulations.[7]

    Current conferences

    Conferences that sponsor football highlighted in yellow.

    ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportsHeadquartersMap
    Allegheny Mountain Collegiate ConferenceAMCC19971016North Boston, New York
    American Rivers ConferenceARC1922922Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    American Southwest ConferenceASC199610[lower-alpha 1]16Richardson, Texas
    Atlantic East ConferenceAEC20187[lower-alpha 2]20Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    Centennial ConferenceCentennial198111[lower-alpha 3]24Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    City University of New York Athletic ConferenceCUNYAC1987816Flushing, Queens, New York
    Coast to Coast Athletic ConferenceC2C19897[lower-alpha 4]19Fredericksburg, Virginia
    College Conference of Illinois and WisconsinCCIW19469[lower-alpha 5]26Naperville, Illinois
    Collegiate Conference of the South[8]CCS20229[lower-alpha 6]14Atlanta, Georgia
    Commonwealth Coast ConferenceCCC198410[lower-alpha 7]18Springfield, Massachusetts
    Eastern Collegiate Football ConferenceECFC20095[lower-alpha 8]1Wilmington, Vermont
    Empire 8E8196410[lower-alpha 9]22Rochester, New York
    Great Northeast Athletic ConferenceGNAC199516[lower-alpha 10]17Boston, Massachusetts
    Heartland Collegiate Athletic ConferenceHCAC198710[lower-alpha 11]16Greenwood, Indiana
    Division III Independents3[lower-alpha 12]
    Landmark ConferenceLandmark200610[lower-alpha 13]23Madison, New Jersey
    Liberty LeagueLiberty199512[lower-alpha 14]26Troy, New York
    Little East ConferenceLEC1986921North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
    Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic ConferenceMASCAC19718[lower-alpha 15]16Westfield, Massachusetts
    Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationMIAA18889[lower-alpha 16]22Freeland, Michigan
    Middle Atlantic ConferencesMAC191216[lower-alpha 17][lower-alpha 18]27Annville, Pennsylvania
    Midwest ConferenceMidwest19219[lower-alpha 19]20Ripon, Wisconsin
    Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceMIAC192013[lower-alpha 20]22St. Paul, Minnesota
    New England Small College Athletic ConferenceNESCAC197111[lower-alpha 21]26Hadley, Massachusetts
    New England Women's and Men's Athletic ConferenceNEWMAC199812[lower-alpha 22]20Wellesley, Massachusetts
    New Jersey Athletic ConferenceNJAC198510[lower-alpha 23]21Pitman, New Jersey
    North Atlantic ConferenceNAC199614[lower-alpha 24]15Waterville, Maine
    North Coast Athletic ConferenceNCAC1983923Westlake, Ohio
    Northern Athletics Collegiate ConferenceNACC200614[lower-alpha 25]19Waukesha, Wisconsin
    Northwest ConferenceNWC19269[lower-alpha 26]20Seattle, Washington
    Ohio Athletic ConferenceOAC19021023Austintown, Ohio
    Old Dominion Athletic ConferenceODAC197615[lower-alpha 27]25[lower-alpha 28]Forest, Virginia
    Presidents' Athletic ConferencePAC195511[lower-alpha 29]23[lower-alpha 30]Wexford, Pennsylvania
    Skyline ConferenceSkyline19891217Lawrenceville, New Jersey
    Southern Athletic AssociationSAA20128[lower-alpha 31]21Atlanta, Georgia
    Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceSCIAC19159[lower-alpha 32]21Los Angeles, California
    Southern Collegiate Athletic ConferenceSCAC19629[lower-alpha 33]18[lower-alpha 34]Suwanee, Georgia
    State University of New York Athletic ConferenceSUNYAC195810[lower-alpha 35]20Fredonia, New York
    St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceSLIAC19891014St. Louis, Missouri
    United East Conference[lower-alpha 36]United East200417[lower-alpha 37]20Gansevoort, New York
    University Athletic AssociationUAA1986822Rochester, New York
    Upper Midwest Athletic ConferenceUMAC19728[lower-alpha 38]16St. Paul, Minnesota
    USA South Athletic ConferenceUSA South196510[lower-alpha 39]14Fayetteville, North Carolina
    Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceWIAC1913822Madison, Wisconsin
    1. 10 full members with Concordia Texas, LeTourneau, Ozarks, and UT Dallas as non-football members, 8 football members with Austin and Texas Lutheran as football-only affiliates.
      • 6 full members and 4 football members in 2024 with departure of full members Concordia Texas, McMurry, Ozarks, and Sul Ross State and football-only members Austin and Texas Lutheran.
      • 5 full members in 2025 with the departure of UT Dallas.
    2. 7 full members in 2024 with the closure of Cabrini and addition of Pratt.
    3. 11 full members, 7 football members.
    4. 6 full members in 2024 with departure of Pratt.
    5. 9 full members, 10 football members with Washington (MO) as a football-only affiliate.
    6. 9 members in 2024 with loss of Berea and addition of Asbury.
    7. 10 members, 6 football members.
    8. 3 members in 2024 with loss of Anna Maria and Castleton.
    9. 9 full members with Elmira, Houghton, Keuka, Nazareth, and Russell Sage as non-football members; 7 football members with SUNY Brockport, SUNY Cortland, and SUNY Morrisville as football-only affiliates.
      • 11 full members and 8 football members in 2024 with addition of Hilbert in football and non-football SUNY Brockport and SUNY Geneseo.
    10. 14 members in 2024 with loss of Anna Maria and Johnson & Wales.
    11. 10 full members, 8 football members.
      • 10 full members and 7 football members in 2024 with addition of Berea and loss of Defiance.
    12. 3 all-sports independents (non-football), 2 football independents (which are members of non-football conferences).
      • 2 all-sports independents in 2024 with loss of Asbury.
    13. 10 members with Drew, Elizabethtown, Goucher, and Scranton as non-football members and 7 football with Keystone as a football-only affiliate.
    14. 12 full members, 7 football members with Buffalo State as a football-only affiliate.
    15. 8 full members with MCLA and Salem State as non-football members, 9 football members with Plymouth State, UMass–Dartmouth, and Western Connecticut State as football affiliates.
      • 9 full members and 11 football members in 2024 with addition of Anna Maria and football-only Castleton.
    16. 9 full members, 7 football members.
    17. The MAC is actually an umbrella organization of three conferences. Eight schools are members of the MAC Commonwealth and eight others are members of the MAC Freedom. Each league conducts competition in the same set of 14 sports, not including football. The third league, called the Middle Atlantic Conference, combines schools from the MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom for 13 other sports, including football.
    18. 16 full members (8 Commonwealth, 8 Freedom) and 10 football members.
    19. 9 full members, 10 football members with Chicago as a football affiliate.
    20. 13 full members, 10 football members.
    21. 11 full members, 10 football members.
    22. 12 full members and 8 football members.
    23. 10 full members with New Jersey City, Ramapo, Rutgers–Newark, Rutgers–Camden, and Stockton as non-football members; 7 football members with Christopher Newport and Salisbury as football affiliates.
    24. 12 full members in 2024 with loss of SUNY Canton, and SUNY Morrisville.
    25. 14 full members, 9 football members with Eureka as a football-only affiliate.
    26. 9 full members, 8 football members.
    27. 15 full members, 8 football members.
      • 9 football members in 2025 with addition of Roanoke.
    28. 26 sports in 2024 with addition of men's volleyball.
    29. 11 full members, 11 football members, with two full members not sponsoring football (Chatham and Franciscan) and two football affiliates (Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve).
    30. 24 sports in 2024 with addition of men's volleyball.
    31. 8 full members, 9 football members with one full member not sponsoring football (Oglethorpe) and two football affiliates (Southwestern and Trinity [TX]).
      • 10 full members in 2025 with Southwestern and Trinity (TX) moving all their other sports from the SCAC.
    32. 9 full members, 6 football members.
    33. 10 full members in 2024 with addition of McMurry and 4 football members planned for the reinstated football league in that year, with full members Austin, Centenary (LA), and McMurry joined by football-only affiliate Lyon.
      • 8 full members in 2025 with losses of Southwestern and Trinity (TX).
      • 6 football members no later than 2026, with the four inaugural football members joined by full members Schreiner (adding football in 2025 or 2026) and Texas Lutheran.
    34. 19 sports in 2024 with reinstatement of football.
    35. 10 members in 2024 with loss of SUNY Brockport and SUNY Geneseo, and addition of SUNY Canton and SUNY Morrisville.
    36. In December 2022, the Colonial States Athletic Conference and United East announced their intent to merge effective in 2023–24.[9] Shortly before the merger took effect, both agreed that the merged league would operate under the United East banner. [10]
    37. 18 full members in 2024 with addition of Penn State Brandywine.
    38. 8 full members with Bethany Lutheran, North Central, Northland, and Wisconsin–Superior as non-football members; 6 football members with Greenville, and Westminster (MO) as football-only affiliates.
    39. 10 full members with Mary Baldwin, Meredith, Pfeiffer, Salem College, and William Peace as non-football members; 9 football members with Belhaven, Huntingdon, LaGrange, and Maryville as football-affiliates.

    Single-sport conferences

    ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembersSportHeadquartersMap
    Coastal Lacrosse ConferenceCLC20226Men's lacrosse
    Continental Volleyball ConferenceCVC20119Men's volleyballMadison, New Jersey
    Midwest Collegiate Volleyball LeagueMCVL201410Men's volleyballBradenton, Florida
    Midwest Lacrosse ConferenceMLC20098Men's lacrosseWaukesha, Wisconsin
    Midwest Women's Lacrosse ConferenceMWLC201010Women's LacrosseWaukesha, Wisconsin
    New England Collegiate ConferenceNECC2007[lower-alpha 1]7Men's volleyball[lower-alpha 2]Mansfield, Massachusetts
    New England Hockey ConferenceNEHC201510 (men)
    13 (women)
    Ice hockeyN/A
    Northern Collegiate Hockey AssociationNCHA198110 (men)
    7 (women)
    Ice hockeyWaukesha, Wisconsin
    United Volleyball ConferenceUVC20108Men's volleyballRochester, New York
    United Collegiate Hockey ConferenceUCHC201612 (men)
    13 (women)
    Ice hockeyDanbury, Connecticut
    1. Operated as an all-sports conference from 2007–2023.
    2. Also organizes competition in the non-NCAA esports.

    Other sports

    These all-sports conferences sponsor sports which do not have D-III championships.

    ConferenceNicknameFoundedMembers[lower-alpha 1]SportHeadquartersMap
    Allegheny Mountain Collegiate ConferenceAMCC19978BowlingNorth Boston, New York
    College Conference of Illinois and WisconsinCCIW19468BowlingNaperville, Illinois
    Metropolitan Swimming ConferenceMETS ?14 (men)
    17 (women)
    1 (swimming) ?
    Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceWIAC19138Women's gymnasticsMadison, Wisconsin
    1. Number reflects membership in the sport that lacks a D-III championship, not the total conference membership.

    Defunct NCAA conferences

    ConferenceDivisionFoundedFoldedFate
    America Sky ConferenceDivision I20072014Men's golf conference absorbed by the Big Sky Conference.[11]
    American Collegiate Athletic AssociationDivision III20172020Merged with the Capital Athletic Conference, with the merged conference renaming itself the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference shortly thereafter.
    American Lacrosse ConferenceDivision I20012014Women's lacrosse conference that folded after the 2014 season due to fallout of the early-2010s conference realignment, specifically the 2013 announcement by the Big Ten that it would add men's and women's lacrosse for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season). Four of the seven final ALC members are full Big Ten members. Johns Hopkins went independent before joining Big Ten women's lacrosse in the 2017 season. The other two members became Big East affiliates.
    American South ConferenceDivision I19871991Merged with the Sun Belt Conference. The new conference used the Sun Belt name.[12]
    Atlantic Central Football ConferenceDivision III19972010Disbanded
    Atlantic Soccer ConferenceDivision I20002012Disbanded
    Atlantic Women's Colleges ConferenceDivision III19952007Disbanded
    Big Central Soccer ConferenceDivision I19871991Men's soccer-only conference disbanded after the all-sports conferences of all but two of its members began sponsoring the sport.
    Big Eight ConferenceDivision I19071996Initially formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, before six schools split away to form the Big Six in 1928.
    Brought in four former Southwest Conference schools to grow into the Big 12 Conference.
    Border ConferenceUniversity Division19311962Members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses.
    Central Collegiate Hockey Association (original)Division I19712013The decision of the Big Ten Conference to add men's ice hockey as a sponsored sport in the 2013–14 season, taking three of the most successful members of the then-11-member league, led to a major conference realignment that ultimately consumed the CCHA. Two members joined the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference, one member joined Hockey East, and the remaining five members joined or rejoined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The CCHA would be revived in 2021 with eight members, four of which played in the final season of the original league; the current CCHA considers itself a continuation of the original.
    Central Intercollegiate Bowling ConferenceDivision III20192020Bowling-only league effectively absorbed by the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.[13]
    Colonial Hockey ConferenceDivision III20152020Women's ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded after the 2019–20 season when the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) took over operations.[14] At that time, all of the remaining members were full members of the CCC.
    Colonial States Athletic ConferenceDivision III19922023Merged with the United East Conference. The 'new' conference used the United East name.[15]
    Commonwealth Coast FootballDivision III19652022Football-only conference, absorbed by the Commonwealth Coast Conference. Rebranded in 2017 from its original name, the New England Football Conference.
    Continental Divide ConferenceDivision II ???1992Women's-only conference that merged with the men's-only Great Northwest Conference (not to be confused with the current Great Northwest Athletic Conference) to form the Pacific West Conference.
    Deep South ConferenceDivision II19942013Men's lacrosse conference disbanded when the South Atlantic Conference and Sunshine State Conference, home to all nine of the final conference members, began sponsoring the sport.
    Dixie Conference*19301942Disbanded after most of its members suspended athletics during World War II.
    Dixie Conference*19481954Disbanded
    East Coast ConferenceDivision I19581994Absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference, now known as The Summit League.
    Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League*19291992Baseball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, disbanded when Army and Navy aligned their baseball teams with the bulk of their other teams in the Patriot League.
    Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League*19011955Basketball-only conference absorbed by the Ivy League, which claims the EIBL as part of its own history.
    Eastern Wrestling LeagueDivision I19752019Wrestling-only league absorbed by the Mid-American Conference.[16]
    ECAC Lacrosse LeagueDivision I19992014Men's lacrosse conference that disbanded after the 2014 season. The conference lost many members after the 2010 season when the original Big East launched a men's lacrosse league, and lost still more members with the Big Ten announcement. At the end of the final ECAC Lacrosse season, only one member had not announced a new lacrosse affiliation for the 2014–15 school year; that school would later join Southern Conference men's lacrosse.
    ECAC Division II Lacrosse LeagueDivision II20122016Disbanded. Six members began play in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, leaving three members to become independents.
    ECAC NortheastDivision III19712016Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded
    ECAC WestDivision III19842016Ice hockey-only conference. Disbanded
    Freedom Football ConferenceDivision III19922003Disbanded
    Great Lakes Football ConferenceDivision II20062012Football-only conference, effectively absorbed by the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
    Great Midwest ConferenceDivision I19911995Merged with the Metro Conference to form Conference USA.
    Great Northwest ConferenceDivision II ???1992The second part of the merger that created the current Pacific West Conference.
    Great South Athletic ConferenceDivision III19992016Ended sponsorship of men's sports in 2012; remained a women-only league until disbanding entirely. One media outlet specializing in D-III sports coverage considered the Collegiate Conference of the South, formed in 2022 by an amicable split of the USA South Athletic Conference, a spiritual successor, noting that seven of the nine charter CCS members had been Great South members in the last season that it sponsored men's sports.[17]
    Great West ConferenceDivision I20042013Disbanded after all but one of its members joined more established conferences during the early-2010s conference realignment. The men's golf history and Internet presence of the Great West were maintained by the America Sky Conference (above) before the latter conference's absorption by the Big Sky.
    Great West Hockey ConferenceDivision I19851988Ice hockey-only conference formed by four Western schools, but had one of its members drop hockey after its first season. After failing to attract additional members in 1988, the league folded when one of the remaining members shut down its entire athletic program.
    Great Western Lacrosse LeagueDivision I19932010Members joined the ECAC Lacrosse League (see above).
    Gulf Coast ConferenceCollege Division19491957Disbanded
    Gulf Star ConferenceDivision I19841987Effectively absorbed by the Southland Conference.
    Heartland ConferenceDivision II19992019In August 2017, eight of the nine members announced a mass exodus to the Lone Star Conference (LSC)—a conference with which the Heartland Conference had recently discussed a potential merger[18]— effective in 2019.[19] One of the eight schools changed course and instead opted to become a de facto member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 2019,[20] joining the remaining Heartland member in that status.[21]
    High Country Athletic ConferenceDivision I19831990Women's-only conference absorbed by the Western Athletic Conference.
    Indiana Collegiate ConferenceDivision II19501978Disbanded
    Indiana Intercollegiate Conference*19221950Disbanded
    Indiana Intercollegiate ConferenceUnknown19221950Split into two conferences, the Indiana Collegiate Conference was made of the larger schools; the Hoosier Collegiate Conference was made of the small, private schools
    Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceUniversity Division19081970Previously known as Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, disbanded.
    Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest*18921893Disbanded, precursor to the Big Ten Conference.
    Lake Michigan ConferenceDivision III19742007Merged with the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.
    Metro ConferenceDivision I19751995Merged with the Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA.
    Metropolitan Collegiate ConferenceUniversity Division19651969Disbanded
    Metropolitan New York ConferenceUniversity Division19331963Disbanded
    Mid-Continent Athletic AssociationDivision II, later Division I19781981Football-only conference absorbed by the Association of Mid-Continent Universities in 1982. Effectively one of the precursors to the current Missouri Valley Football Conference.
    Midwest Athletic Conference for WomenDivision III19771994Merged with the men's Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference, forming the current Midwest Conference.
    Midwest Collegiate Hockey AssociationDivision III19982013Absorbed by the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association.
    Midwestern ConferenceUniversity Division19701972The five member schools were unable to find the 6th member required for NCAA recognition.
    Mountain States Conference (aka Skyline Conference)University Division19381962Disbanded, members split between the newly formed WAC and independent statuses.
    Mountain Rim Gymnastics ConferenceDivision I20132023Women's gymnastics conference; disbanded after the Mountain West Conference began sponsoring women's gymnastics.
    Mountain West Athletic ConferenceDivision I19821988Women's-only conference (not to be confused with the modern Mountain West Conference) absorbed by the Big Sky Conference.
    National Lacrosse ConferenceDivision I20082012Disbanded after the ASUN Conference and Big South Conference began sponsoring women's lacrosse.
    New England Collegiate ConferenceDivision III20072023Disbanded as an all-sports conference after steady losses of membership, both by schools closing and moves to other conferences. Remains in operation for men's volleyball and the non-NCAA esports.
    New England Conference*19381947Disbanded; the final four members joined two other schools to form the Yankee Conference under a new charter. Effectively the earliest ancestor of CAA Football, a conference operated by the Coastal Athletic Association but a separate legal entity, although CAA Football does not claim the NEC's history.
    New England Women's Lacrosse AllianceDivision III19982012Disbanded
    New South Women's Athletic ConferenceDivision I19851991Women's-only conference initially known as the New South Conference; absorbed by the Trans America Athletic Conference, now known as the ASUN Conference.
    North Central ConferenceDivision II19222008Disbanded
    North East Collegiate Volleyball AssociationDivision III19952011Men's volleyball conference disbanded in 2011 due to the 2012 establishment of the NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championship. Most of the all-sports conferences that were home to NECVA members began sponsoring men's volleyball at that time.
    Northeast Women's Hockey LeagueDivision III20172023Women's ice hockey only conference. It was absorbed by SUNYAC.
    North Star ConferenceDivision I19831992Women's-only conference effectively absorbed by the Mid-Continent Conference (now The Summit League).
    Northern California Athletic ConferenceDivision II19251996Football-only conference, dissolved when most members decided to drop football.
    Northern Illinois-Iowa ConferenceDivision III19692007Merged with the Lake Michigan Conference to form the Northern Athletics Conference, now known as the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.
    Northern Pacific ConferenceDivision I19821986Women's-only conference. Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to five of the seven final conference members, began sponsoring women's sports.
    Northern Pacific Field Hockey ConferenceDivision I19822015Field hockey-only conference that folded after the 2014 season. After a period in which the conference expanded to span both coasts, most of the eastern teams left over time. Four of the six final members, all from California (and also the league's founding members), became America East affiliates. The remaining two members became independents; one is now a field hockey member of the Big East and the other is now a MAC field hockey member.
    Northern Sun ConferenceDivision II19791992Women's-only conference that merged with the men's Northern Intercollegiate Conference, forming the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
    Ohio River Lacrosse ConferenceDivision III20142018Men's and women's lacrosse-only conference. Disbanded after the 2017–18 season.
    Pacific Coast ConferenceUniversity Division19151959Forerunner to the Pac-12, disbanded due to scandal and infighting. The Pac-12 considers its history to have started with the formation of the PCC.
    Pacific Coast Softball ConferenceDivision I20022013Softball-only; disbanded due to fallout from the early-2010s conference realignment. After the 2012 season, it lost five members when the Big Sky added the sport and a sixth to the WAC. After the 2013 season, the final seven members left when the West Coast Conference began sponsoring the sport (five were already WCC members, and the other two joined the WAC in softball).
    Pilgrim Lacrosse LeagueDivision III19862014Absorbed by the NEWMAC.
    Southeast Team Handball ConferenceDivision I (de facto)19972006Women-only team handball conference. Disbanded when the sport was dropped from the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
    Southland Bowling LeagueDivision I20152023Bowling-only league founded by, but independent of, the Southland Conference.[22] Merged into Conference USA; one of the final members was already a full CUSA member, another became a full CUSA member in 2023, and the others became CUSA associates.[23]
    Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association*18941941Disbanded with the onset of American involvement in World War II.
    Southwest ConferenceDivision I19141996Disbanded.
    4 members left to join the Big Eight Conference in forming the Big 12.
    3 members left to join the WAC.
    1 member left to join C-USA.
    United Soccer ConferenceDivision I20052009Women's soccer-only, absorbed by the Great West Conference.
    West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic ConferenceDivision II19242013Disbanded after the conference's football schools announced a split from the non-football schools. Ultimately, nine of the final schools became charter members of the Mountain East Conference, three joined the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, two joined the PSAC, and one went independent.
    Western Collegiate Athletic AssociationDivision I19811986Women's-only conference; known in its final season of 1985–86 as the Pacific West Conference (not to be confused with the current NCAA Division II conference). Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to the final five conference members, began sponsoring women's sports.
    Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse AssociationDivision II20102015Lacrosse-only conference absorbed by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference; all final teams are members of the RMAC, including one affiliate. The RMAC had absorbed the women's side of the WILA in 2013; five of the members were RMAC members including one affiliate, one additional women's member became an independent.
    Western Wrestling ConferenceDivision I20062015Wrestling-only conference effectively absorbed by the Big 12 Conference, with all but one of its final members immediately becoming single-sport Big 12 associates and the remaining member joining Big 12 wrestling in 2017.
    Yankee ConferenceDivision I19471997Football-only conference from 1975 until its absorption by the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. Also an effective ancestor of CAA Football, and officially recognized by CAA Football as its earliest predecessor.
    • * - Operated before the NCAA split into divisions in 1955.

    In addition to the above, three single-sport conferences that currently participate in NCAA National Collegiate sports (those whose championship events are open to members of more than one NCAA division) and previously operated both men's and women's divisions now operate as women-only leagues.

    ConferenceDivisionFoundedFoldedFate
    College Hockey America (men's)Division I19992010Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 2002. The men's division disbanded in 2010 after steady losses of membership.
    Golden Coast Conference (men's)National Collegiate20132023Water polo-only conference founded as a women's-only league; added a men's division in 2016. The men's division disbanded after the 2022 season (2022–23 school year) after all six of its final members joined the new men's water polo leagues of the Big West Conference and West Coast Conference.
    Western Collegiate Hockey Association (men's)Division I19512021Founded as a men's-only league; added a women's division in 1999. The men's division disbanded in 2021 after seven of its members left to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association; two other men's members dropped hockey, and the other went independent.

    See also

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